[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 42 (Friday, March 5, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S1343]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1212. Mr. BLUNT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 891 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mrs. 
Murray, Mr. Brown, Mr. Peters, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Stabenow, 
Mr. Tester, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Carper, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. 
Sanders) to the bill H.R. 1319, to provide for reconciliation pursuant 
to title II of S. Con. Res. 5; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. PROHIBITION ON OVERBUILDING BROADBAND NETWORKS.

       No amounts made available under this Act or an amendment 
     made by this Act may be used to subsidize the construction of 
     infrastructure for, or provision of, fixed broadband service 
     in an area that has access to fixed broadband service that 
     qualifies as advanced telecommunications capability (as 
     defined in the 2020 Broadband Deployment Report adopted by 
     the Federal Communications Commission under section 706(b) of 
     the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. 1302(b))), 
     which shall be determined based on the new broadband maps 
     created under section 802(c) of the Communications Act of 
     1934 (47 U.S.C. 642(c)).
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